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# Re: FUP ate my db (and I did RTFM)

- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 05:58:52 PDT
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    >Because you are putting the entire path as a single string?
    >Did you read the docs that came with FUP?  Is you OS actually letting you
    >create a file with a null name?  You have to explode the path on the last
    >/.  This is for security reasons.

    Yes, yes, I know, I'm doing all this. The reason why I want it as a single
    string is so that I can handle the *entire* pathname from within the db rather
    than splitting it up into parts. I think the reason why it's actually crashing
    is that while Unix systems will let you open a directory as a file, reads and
    writes don't do the obvious. I think the EOF marker is definately dodgy, which
    explains why fileread() appeared to just keep reading data until it ran out of
    memory.

    >>Reports about OS incompatibilities are welcome, as long as they include
    >>enough information to make sense of them.
    >
    >Is it just me, or this is problem running rampant everywhere? :)
    >
    >Note, tostr(E_INVIND) will tell you waht E_INVIND is.  And it doesn't
    >really make sense to raise that, but what do I know.

    I know it's an `invalid indirection'... whatever that is. What does it mean?

    >Why are you trying to remove files with filermdir?

    Because I'm writing a generic FUP wrapper class, supposed to be proteected
    enough so that ordinary programmers use it, and there's no *telling* what
    they're going to do.

    --David

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